Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For all you knew , I could have been sleeping naked ! ’ |
| 2 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 3 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 4 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 5 | The ‘ rope ’ binding around the front and headstock is very tasty , as are the snowflake fingerboard inlays ( although they could have been installed straighter ) but I 'm not at all sure about the classical-style rosette complete with touches of green and fluorescent pink . |
| 6 | The only criticism is that it could have been made available earlier to complement the often impractical tomes which emerged from other quarters . |
| 7 | In retrospect , however , it is difficult to see how , unless the King had shown most remarkable misjudgment , it could have been decided other than it was . |
| 8 | While his arguments about capital punishment are still of great relevance , it now seems rather odd that it could have been thought necessary to have to argue against the use of torture for extracting confessions . |
| 9 | Johnson wrote , ‘ We were treated with very liberal hospitality , among a more numerous and elegant company than it could have been supposed easy to collect . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Nevertheless , it is strange that he should keep such a sum on current account , when he could have been earning two per cent interest . ’ |
| 11 | Spent ten years writing L'Idiot de la famille when he could have been writing Maoist tracts . |
| 12 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |